kian

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by kian 6d ago
24, 128, approach infinity -- I know there are microtonal systems, but if you want to understand them, choose the nearest multiple-of-twelve (or really, choose whatever TET contains the closest approximations to the exact notes) TET and loo
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by kian 6d ago
bioweapons tend to not remain contained to the area they're deployed (with notable exceptions for things like Anthrax). Some of them even last a long time on surfaces, making cleanup and rescue harder.
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by kian 6d ago
It's all about the integers modulo 12. Classical notation obscures that (while making it easier to figure out which of the integers modulo 12 you're using, minus being able to assign them to integers in an obvious way).
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by kian 7d ago
hence the robotics industry, and their robot enforcers. and drones
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by kian 7d ago
if you think companies optimize for the worst outcome still acceptable for their users to please shareholders, why don't you think governments don't opt for the same with their citizens to please special interests? voting with you
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by kian 16d ago
Read Polya's "How to Solve It" :)
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by kian 16d ago
Composability and orthogonality are definitely still useful for agents. Just because they make handling a lack of those things 'easier' doesn't mean it isn't less expensive and less likely to make mistakes by following e
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by kian 18d ago
So I'm guessing you don't do anything except what matters to billions of people? Always 100% fully generalized contributions, never making your local world a better place? Your only local contributions being to tell off people who
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by kian 19d ago
what do you mean by 'full system understanding', here? And don't you think that claude and openai are using their own forge as well?
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by kian 21d ago
is there a (4) or (5) that would be preferable? :)
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by kian 1mo ago
Who said anything about a corporate context? :)
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by kian 1mo ago
Using context always means there's less for something else, whether you're a human or a machine. Abstractions that localize reasoning and help load the context into a human brain are ideal for machines and humans alike.
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by kian 1mo ago
I think this is one of the beauties of AI -- filling in the gaps to help people make their microtalents shine.
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by kian 1mo ago
what kind of civic volunteering did you find most rewarding?
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by kian 1mo ago
Tragedies of the commons are often aimed to be 'resolved' through central authority, but another way of stating what's happening there is that they are being resolved by someone being granted the ownership right over the comm
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by kian 2mo ago
how much do you make selling skills on marketplace, just curious? It seems like it'd be impossible to vet a skill without reading it, so the entire concept mystifies me just a little bit.
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by kian 2mo ago
link, please? :)
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by kian 2mo ago
So this makes sense for a standard SaaS app - but given that models in general perform much better with low context window usage, it probably also means that Fable is still significantly better at 'frontier-level tasks' -- hard re
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by kian 3mo ago
It doesn't seem like there's been a precipitous drop in resources compared to the decades of requests and warnings that have led up to this point. So what's different now, if not resourcing?
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by kian 4mo ago
"In my experience, AI still drifts from what I meant it to do on anything bigger than building a widget." I've had code bases with tens of thousands of lines of code built from scratch that I hand-reviewed every line of and w
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by kian 5mo ago
But what was the overlap?
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by kian 2y ago
If you take the chromatic scale and then swap every other pair of notes on opposite sides of the circle, it yields the circle of fifths. You'll notice that on the circle of fifths notes that skip a step are a whole tone apart in the ch
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by kian 2y ago
Abstract Algebra, Combinatorics, and Discrete Mathematics are all definitely worth the squeeze; and incidentally something that could easily be taught to middle- and high-schoolers with the right examples.
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by kian 2y ago
and now we program the fabric of society ;)
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by kian 2y ago
This is why I exclusively use the API to 'chat' with GPT -- complete control over the context presented.
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by kian 2y ago
Many artists in fact do exactly this -- they do not make the art themselves, but instead imagine and manage the 'art project' and delegate tasks to other artists that work for them. Leonardo (Da Vinci) in fact himself did this wit
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by kian 2y ago
They are slant rhymes of one another. B and M are phonetically nearby, as are ia and ih and ao and ou. In no way like hacker news and cake her knees -- but more like hacker news and hagger moos ;)
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by kian 2y ago
I have also found that programming is the gateway drug to Math B. Thanks to Functional Programming and Type Theory I eventually found may way into Abstract Algebra, Topology, and Category Theory... Wish I had time to go back and study these
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by kian 2y ago
>>> The Pythagorean theorem becomes intuitively true not when you have some deep insight about Euclidean space, but when, on seeing a right triangle, three proofs of it spring instantly to mind. To be honest, this sounds like orien
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by kian 2y ago
perhaps he's suggesting that they seize the software, weights, and training data from every company who's engaged in this? Or maybe he's just trying to protect profits and doesn't mean a word of it...

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